Education

IT strategy plays a more important role than ever in the provision of tertiary education. It’s vital for efficient and cost-effective administration. It’s essential to meet the needs of students and staff in an increasingly networked, 24x7x365 learning and research environment. And it’s critical to providing the high quality resources that help institutions attract and retain the best students, staff and investments.

IBM offers a broad range of services for Further and Higher Education institutions, including:

• Strategies and technologies to maximise administrative efficiency – controlling cost, increasing competitiveness and creating next-generation learning, teaching and research environments.
• E-learning solutions, from content management, archiving and retrieval systems to virtual learning environments, digital libraries, and collaborative learning, teaching and research portals.
• High Performance Computing technologies that drive and support cutting-edge research and development. Our clients benefit from decades of IBM experience working with research institutions as well as our own global research organisation.
• A full range of technologies and services to support the in-house IT initiatives of FE and HE organisations.

IBM’s UK education clients include Cardiff University, where our Virtual Infrastructure Access service will give students and staff any time, anywhere access to key IT services, and Swansea University, where high-performance IBM computing powers research in medicine, engineering, physical sciences and life sciences.